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WorksheetsPi Day quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14) What time does the official celebration begin?
a)
3:14 PM
b)
7:22 PM
c)
1:59 PM
d)
5:18 PM
2.
What famous scientist was born on Pi Day in 1879?
a)
Archimedes
b)
Einstein
c)
Galileo
d)
Newton
3.
What shape did Archimedes use to find pi?
a)
square
b)
rectangle
c)
triangle
d)
pentagon
4.
What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?
a)
Pi Bee
b)
Pie baking Contest
c)
Pie eating competition
d)
mails its acceptance letters
5.
Are pi's digits periodic? In other words, do the digits ever repeat themselves in any pattern?
a)
No, pi is irrational
b)
Yes, every 6,000,000 decimal places
c)
Yes, every infinitely long number repeats
d)
Maybe, not enough digits of pi are known yet
6.
Among the digits of pi currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?
a)
7
b)
2
c)
0
d)
8
7.
Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter "pi" its current mathematical definition?
a)
Isaac Newton
b)
William Jones
c)
Napoleon Bonaparte
d)
Archimedes
8.
Who was the first group to find a value for pi?
a)
Egyptians
b)
Babylonians
c)
Romans
d)
Greeks
9.
What U.S. city has a zip code containing the first 5 digits of pi?
a)
Savannah, Georgia
b)
Salt Lake City, Utah
c)
Frankfort, Kentucky
d)
Juneau, Alaska
10.
How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?
a)
78
b)
3
c)
29
d)
124
11.
The first known celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw in 1988 and took place in:
a)
Boston, MA
b)
New York City
c)
San Francisco, CA
d)
Chicago, IL
12.
Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
a)
Euler
b)
Einstein
c)
Descartes
d)
Fibonacci
13.
What number is in the hundredths place in pi?
a)
1
b)
4
c)
5
d)
3
14.
Is pi irrational, rational, both, or neither?
a)
Both
b)
Irrational
c)
Rational
d)
Neither
15.
How many digits are in pi?
a)
10 trillion
b)
5 billion
c)
infinite
d)
a lot
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